English Back-Formation: Recent Trends in Usage

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
English Back-Formation: Recent Trends in Usage
Original language description
The objective of the present study is a comprehensive description and analysis of English back-formation (BF) in the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The material collected (over 700 units) has been classified into nine types according to thepart of speech of both the resulting and the source word. This typology derives from the typology established by Esko V. Pennanen (1966), whose classical study is the methodological point of departure of the present research. The major results of the research can be summarized in the following way: Productivity of BF remains at the same level as it was in the first half of the 20th century. The most productive process is the formation of verbs from action nouns. BF of verbs from agent nouns has decreased significantly. BF of verbs from adjectives has almost disappeared. There is a growth in the participation of compounds in this process; they represent 55 % in the sample from the latest period. The most frequent subtracted suffixes are
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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